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vPatntedNov. 21.1893.

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LIAS E. FASOHING, OF DAVENPORT, IOWA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO J. A. LE'OLAIRE AND A. W. VANDER VEER, OF SAME PLACE.

sLlolNc-DQOR LOCK.'

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patentl No. 509,025,dated November 21, 1893. Application filed August 15, 1893. Serial No. 483,210. A(No model.)

To @ZI whomv t may concern.'

Be .it known that I, ELIAS E. FASCHING, a' citizen of the United States, residing at Davenport, iu the county of Scott and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Lockp ing Device for Oar-Doors, of which the follthis invention.

lowing is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in vlocking devices for car doors.

The object of the present invention is to provide a simple, inexpensive and effective device, capable of locking a sliding' car door in any desired position over the door open-` ing, to enable Ventilating openings t0 be provided, and to permit empty cars to have their doors locked in an open position to prevent the doors from being injured by accidentally sliding, due to the motion ofthe train.

The invention consists in the construction.

and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings and pointed outl in the claim hereto appended.

In thedraWings-Figure l is a perspective view of a portion of a car provided with a locking device constructed in accordance with Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view. Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional View.

Like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures of the draW-.

ings.

1 designates a portion of a car having the 4 usual side opening and provided with a slidkmounted or journaled in suitable bearings 9 and 10 of the car door. The rock-shaft is provided near its lower end with a hasp 11 forming an operating arm and adapted to be secured to a staple or similar keeper 12, which projects from the car door, and is adapted to v receive the ordinary lock and seal employed sacrificing any of the for securin g car doors. The perforations may be arranged at any desired point and may be of any number, and the upper endy of the rook-shaft terminates at the line of perforations, and the L-shaped dog or arm, which is adapted to enter any of the perforations, seourely locks the car door at any position either ventirely opened or closed, or partially open as circumstances may demand, and it cannot be sprung out of such engagement when the hasp or arm 11 is secured toithe keeper 12,.

' It will be readily apparent that the locking device is simple and comparatively inexpensive in construction, and positive and reliable in operation, and that it may be readily applied to existing cars provided with sliding doors Without materially changing the construction of the parts, and that a car door may be secured at any desired position to provide Ventilating openings, or to entirely close the door, or to secure it when open against accidental slipping.

Changes in lthe form, proportion and the minor details of construction may be resorted to Without departing from the principle'or advantages of this invention.

The combination with a car having a sliding door and provided With a door opening, of the horizontally disposed bar 5 having a depending edge forming a groove between, it and the adj acent' portion of the car to receive the upper edge of the door, said bar being provided with a series of perforations, a vertically disposed rock-shaft journaled in suitable bearings on the door and provided at its top with an armor dog arranged to enter the perforations of the bar to lock the door, said rock-shaft having an arm forming a hasp, said arm also serving as a handle to operate the rock-shaft, and a keeper projecting from the ear door and arrangedto receive the hasp, substantially as described. Y

In testimonythat I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto atlxed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

ELIAS E. FASOHING.

Witnesses:

J. J. NAGEL, J As. W. BOLLINGEE. 

